1979 Texas Rangers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 83-79
Finished 3rd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,519,671, Avg. 19,483
Ballpark: Arlington Stadium
Manager: Pat Corrales (83-79)
Location: Arlington, Texas

1979 Texas Rangers Roster
1979 Texas Rangers Results

The Texas Rangers of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 83 wins and 79 losses, finishing third in the AL's West Division.

The Rangers scored 750 runs and conceded 698 runs. Buddy Bell, Pat Putnam and Richie Zisk led Texas with 18 home runs apiece. Buddy Bell drove in 101 runs. Al Oliver topped hitters with significant playing time with a .323 average. Steve Comer paced the team with 17 wins, while Fergie Jenkins also added 15 or more wins also Jim Kern earned a 1.57 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Pat Corrales coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Steve Comer	17	12	.586	3.68	36	36	0	6	1	0	242.3	230	114	99	24	84	4	86	8	0	7	1021
Fergie Jenkins	16	14	.533	4.07	37	37	0	10	3	0	259.0	252	127	117	40	81	6	164	3	0	4	1089
Jim Kern	13	5	.722	1.57	71	0	57	0	0	29	143.0	99	35	25	5	62	6	136	2	0	5	578
Doc Medich	10	7	.588	4.17	29	19	1	4	1	0	149.0	156	78	69	9	49	3	58	4	0	4	647
Jon Matlack	5	4	.556	4.13	13	13	0	2	0	0	85.0	98	43	39	9	15	1	35	1	0	1	355
Doyle Alexander	5	7	.417	4.45	23	18	3	0	0	0	113.3	114	65	56	3	69	3	50	1	0	4	508
Sparky Lyle	5	8	.385	3.13	67	0	53	0	0	13	95.0	78	37	33	9	28	6	48	0	0	2	384
Danny Darwin	4	4	.500	4.04	20	6	4	1	0	0	78.0	50	36	35	5	30	2	58	5	1	0	313
Ed Farmer	2	0	1.000	4.36	11	2	5	0	0	0	33.0	30	21	16	2	19	2	25	2	0	3	144
John Henry Johnson	2	6	.250	4.92	17	12	1	1	0	0	82.3	79	50	45	12	36	3	46	1	1	3	357
Larry McCall	1	0	1.000	2.16	2	1	1	0	0	0	8.3	7	2	2	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	35
Dave Rajsich	1	3	.250	3.52	27	3	8	0	0	0	53.7	56	25	21	7	18	0	32	0	0	0	229
Brian Allard	1	3	.250	4.32	7	4	1	2	0	0	33.3	36	17	16	4	13	2	14	0	0	0	141
Dock Ellis	1	5	.167	5.98	10	9	0	0	0	0	46.7	64	34	31	5	16	2	10	0	0	2	215
Bob Babcock	0	0		10.13	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	7	7	6	1	7	0	6	0	0	1	31
Jerry Don Gleaton	0	1	.000	6.52	5	2	1	0	0	0	9.7	15	7	7	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	45
Totals	83	79	.512	3.86	379	162	136	26	5	42	1437.0	1371	698	617	135	532	40	773	28	2	37	6092

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Buddy Bell	162	720	670	89	200	42	3	18	101	5	4	30	45	.299	.327	.451	.778	302	16	3	7	10	4
Al Oliver	136	538	492	69	159	28	4	12	76	4	5	34	34	.323	.367	.470	.836	231	14	4	1	7	8
Bump Wills	146	617	543	90	148	21	3	5	46	35	11	53	58	.273	.340	.350	.690	190	12	4	14	3	4
Jim Sundberg	150	561	495	50	136	23	4	5	64	3	3	51	51	.275	.345	.368	.713	182	17	5	5	5	5
Richie Zisk	144	563	503	69	132	21	1	18	64	1	1	57	75	.262	.336	.416	.752	209	15	0	1	2	4
Pat Putnam	139	465	426	57	118	19	2	18	64	1	6	23	50	.277	.319	.458	.777	195	12	6	4	6	6
Billy Sample	128	377	325	60	95	21	2	5	35	8	6	37	28	.292	.365	.415	.781	135	6	2	10	3	1
John Ellis	111	337	316	33	90	12	0	12	61	2	2	15	55	.285	.318	.437	.754	138	3	2	0	4	1
Johnny Grubb	102	328	289	42	79	14	0	10	37	2	4	34	44	.273	.350	.426	.775	123	6	1	2	2	3
Nelson Norman	147	383	343	36	76	9	3	0	21	4	1	19	41	.222	.260	.265	.526	91	5	0	18	3	0
Mickey Rivers	58	263	247	35	74	9	3	6	25	7	2	9	18	.300	.323	.433	.756	107	2	1	3	3	0
Oscar Gamble	64	201	161	27	54	6	0	8	32	2	1	37	15	.335	.458	.522	.979	84	6	1	0	2	11
Willie Montanez	38	154	144	19	46	6	0	8	24	0	1	8	14	.319	.357	.528	.885	76	4	1	0	1	1
Eric Soderholm	63	165	147	15	40	6	0	4	19	0	0	12	9	.272	.325	.395	.720	58	5	1	2	3	0
Mike Jorgensen	90	177	157	21	35	7	0	6	16	0	2	14	29	.223	.293	.382	.675	60	3	2	3	1	1
Larvell Blanks	68	138	120	13	24	5	0	1	15	0	0	11	9	.200	.259	.267	.526	32	1	0	3	4	0
Dave Roberts	44	93	84	12	22	2	1	3	14	1	0	7	17	.262	.319	.417	.735	35	3	0	2	0	0
Gary Gray	16	44	42	4	10	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	8	.238	.273	.238	.511	10	2	0	0	0	0
LaRue Washington	25	22	18	5	5	0	0	0	2	2	1	4	0	.278	.409	.278	.687	5	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	9	9	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	1	0	1	0	0
Greg Mahlberg	7	21	17	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	4	.118	.211	.294	.505	5	2	0	2	0	0
Gary Holle	5	7	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.167	.286	.333	.619	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bert Campaneris	8	10	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.111	.200	.111	.311	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Babcock	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Allard	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Rajsich	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Comer	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Kern	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry McCall	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doc Medich	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Farmer	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2239	6193	5562	750	1549	252	26	140	718	79	51	461	607	.278	.334	.409	.743	2273	135	33	78	59	49

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Pat Putnam	1B	96	89	771.3	832	62	5	65	.994	1.431	9.313	0	0	0
Mike Jorgensen	1B	60	23	277.7	287	30	4	28	.988	1.275	5.283	0	0	0
John Ellis	1B	30	28	185.0	216	11	5	17	.978	11.043	7.567	0	0	0
Willie Montanez	1B	19	19	170.0	191	16	1	14	.995	1.959	1.895	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	1B	2	2	14.0	9	1	1	0	.909	6.429	5.000	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	1B	6	0	11.0	9	0	0	1	1.000	7.364	1.500	0	0	0
Gary Holle	1B	1	1	8.0	11	0	0	1	1.000	12.375	11.000	0	0	0
Bump Wills	2B	146	143	1269.0	337	468	20	95	.976	5.709	5.514	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	2B	16	12	106.0	26	25	0	6	1.000	4.330	3.188	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	2B	8	7	58.0	15	23	0	9	1.000	5.897	4.750	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	2B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	2B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	3B	147	144	1232.0	112	364	15	22	.969	3.477	3.238	0	0	0
Eric Soderholm	3B	37	18	203.0	20	48	4	5	.944	3.015	1.838	0	0	0
LaRue Washington	3B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	3B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jim Sundberg	C	150	144	1271.0	754	75	4	14	.995	5.870	5.527	8	76	53	41.1
Dave Roberts	C	14	10	89.0	45	5	1	0	.980	5.056	3.571	0	4	4	50.0
Greg Mahlberg	C	7	5	49.0	22	1	0	0	1.000	4.224	3.286	0	6	0	0.0
John Ellis	C	7	3	28.0	16	1	0	1	1.000	5.464	2.429	0	4	1	20.0
Richie Zisk	OF	134	132	1136.3	234	10	7	6	.972	1.933	1.821	0	0	0
Al Oliver	OF	119	115	988.3	260	9	7	2	.975	2.450	2.261	0	0	0
Billy Sample	OF	103	79	728.7	173	7	0	1	1.000	2.223	1.748	0	0	0
Johnny Grubb	OF	82	64	587.7	135	8	2	4	.986	2.190	1.744	0	0	0
Mickey Rivers	OF	57	55	484.3	153	4	3	1	.981	2.917	2.754	0	0	0
Oscar Gamble	OF	21	18	152.0	41	2	0	2	1.000	2.546	2.048	0	0	0
Mike Jorgensen	OF	20	11	117.7	33	1	0	0	1.000	2.601	1.700	0	0	0
Dave Roberts	OF	11	7	60.0	13	1	0	0	1.000	2.100	1.273	0	0	0
LaRue Washington	OF	13	5	56.0	16	0	0	0	1.000	2.571	1.231	0	0	0
Fergie Jenkins	P	37	37	259.0	25	50	3	5	.962	2.606	2.027	0	0	0
Steve Comer	P	36	36	242.3	19	38	4	0	.934	2.117	1.583	0	0	0
Doc Medich	P	29	19	149.0	6	33	2	0	.951	2.356	1.345	0	0	0
Jim Kern	P	71	0	143.0	9	16	7	1	.781	1.573	.352	0	0	0
Doyle Alexander	P	23	18	113.3	12	23	0	1	1.000	2.779	1.522	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	P	67	0	95.0	2	11	2	0	.867	1.232	.194	0	0	0
Jon Matlack	P	13	13	85.0	3	16	2	1	.905	2.012	1.462	0	0	0
John Henry Johnson	P	17	12	82.3	1	11	0	1	1.000	1.312	.706	0	0	0
Danny Darwin	P	20	6	78.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	.923	.400	0	0	0
Dave Rajsich	P	27	3	53.7	1	13	0	0	1.000	2.348	.519	0	0	0
Dock Ellis	P	10	9	46.7	2	8	1	0	.909	1.929	1.000	0	0	0
Brian Allard	P	7	4	33.3	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.160	1.143	0	0	0
Ed Farmer	P	11	2	33.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.636	.545	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	P	5	2	9.7	0	4	0	0	1.000	3.724	.800	0	0	0
Larry McCall	P	2	1	8.3	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.080	.500	0	0	0
Bob Babcock	P	4	0	5.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.250	0	0	0
Nelson Norman	SS	142	115	1015.0	177	302	24	64	.952	4.247	3.373	0	0	0
Larvell Blanks	SS	49	27	202.0	39	65	3	16	.972	4.634	2.122	0	0	0
Buddy Bell	SS	33	17	184.0	35	65	2	9	.980	4.891	3.030	0	0	0
Bert Campaneris	SS	8	3	31.0	12	13	1	5	.962	7.258	3.125	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	SS	3	0	4.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1924	1458	12932.0	4311	1862	130	398	.979	4.296	3.208	8	90	58	39.2

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